Theo Logos's Reviews > The Hawkline Monster

The Hawkline Monster is Richard Brautigan’s long, shaggy dog story of a drunken joke. It starts out mildly amusing, but as this farcical mashup of Western and Gothic moves along with its paired down language, purposeful cliches, and increasingly absurd situations, an odd tension builds, and those little chuckles become more sustained laughs, and may eventually build into a guffaw or two.

Brautigan tells this tale with tongue firmly planted in cheek, and you can almost picture the mischievous twinkle in his eye, and taste the whiskey being passed around as he tells it.